We all know that local successfully "creative" talent like Mr
Sim Wong Hoo they made their achievement only in overseas, but
definitely not in Singapore. In fact how many of us know that the
invention of thumbdrive is invented by an Singaporean name Henn Tan
from Trek company, but we didn't know because in the end it is
overseas company like IBM that owned "his" thumbdrive which
become an "fashion" to replace DVD. This also prove that in
Singapore there seem to be no "Intellectual Property" of it own to
promote local creativity and every product that an fellow
singaporean create are view as common "thing" and are just taken
for granted just like an cup of kopi and it take an influential
outsider like US to prompt it.
In fact, even Steve Wozniak said that Singapore is not
creative and his reasons : http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2011/12/15/wozniak-apple-couldnt-emerge-in-singapore
, it is no wonder he came up with this idea because some start-ups
from Silicon Valley did tried to move to
Singapore and they doesn't find it equally awesome as the
Silicon Valley itself, that why their branches in Singapore are
just an "dummy" office for show.
"Creative" people are often treated with "bias" because
Singapore is an academic society (no different from Ancient
China's Scholar exams] - hence, the inventing process is often seen
by gahmen as a "burden", not an investment item on the national
development policies.
And to forget to mention entrepreneurship was
ruined by education ladder like ITE, Poly and finally NS to
Uni if they are lucky. As for our education system are run by
meritocratic guidelines - no one will risk implement any
worth of brilliant but risky proposal. Some
gahmen bodies will stated like all creative applications
with related to multimedia must be "technically solid"
with the proper "technological credentials" - in other
words that as "only certified degree holders in any field
may apply for a creative media grant", hence artists without cert
may or may not have any chance.
Finally, I think most society like Singapore are mad
about iPhone or Angry birds that they will rather leave the
"creativity" to overseas market.